Marlborough Museum Collection of Textiles
Waistcoat

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Collection MHS (Unaccessioned) Textiles
Description Man's Black and brown brocade-fronted waistcoat with collar. Brocade frabric with unneven weave. Hand and machine stitched. Tan linen lining with same material for the back outer. Two squares of material either side of the back which had two metal eyelets - they would have had laces through them to adjust the waistcoat width. Six metal buttons with shanks and handsewn buttonholes. There are two side slit pockets either side centre front. Condition: Heavily soiled with the material fractured around the armholes.

Men's waistcoats were often stitched by their wives, or made by the bride-to-be for her fiance.

Part of Ethel Collins collection. Understood by Textile manger, Pam Saunders, to have belonged to Mr. Brownlee of Havelock.

Some of the clothing collection attributed to Mrs. Ethel Collins was gathered before she became a member of MHS. Later, as volunteer in charge of the Textile Department, garments were donated to her for the Society [see MHS minute book 5, page 211]. These garments joined her own donated collection and all became part of the MHS Textile Collection.



Object ID 0000.600.0306
Object Name Waistcoat
Other # T2026
People Brownlee, Mr.
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Last modified on: December 19, 2014